I'm all for dojo. Send me a widget package and I will review it, put it in twtools, and give you the commit bit.
On Apr 1, 8:19 am, "Florent Aide" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sorry I don't know why the answer went private... > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Florent Aide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 4:18 PM > Subject: Re: GSoC ToscaWidget+Javascript library. > To: apm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:56 PM, apm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Florent > > > Sure, you are right about contributing. Unfortunately, I do not have > > enough experience, yet. > > We all went through this :) welcome onboard. > > > In particular, the whole concept of widgets is still unclear to me. I > > would love to create a TW for dojo - if only I could figure out how > > and what it is supposed to do. What is the difference between using TG > > +dojo and TG+TW+dojo? Does it make Ajax calls easier? Just lost, > > somehow. > > At the origin of widgets were the "TurboGears widgets" hereafter > called the tg widgets. Those little beasts are roughly small eggs that > provide easy to defined functionalities. In the case of JS libraries > this is just a small wrapper that provides js files to a python > program through pkg_resources interfaces. > > Then there was a need to evolves and be able to use different > templating engines. Alberto and Michele decided to co-design and > implement better widgets that would enable us to do this and overcome > some of the difficulties of the current widgets implementation. > ToscaWidgets are the offspring of this effort. > > The future of widgets is ToscaWidgets, the current widgets (because of > ecosystem) is still tg widgets. But you can use ToscaWidgets right now > with TG1 and TG2 and even Pylons if you want. > > Widgets are not about Ajax, they are about providing small, reusable, > pluggable components to speed-up development time once you grasp how > they work. > > > thanks > > André > > No problem, > Florent. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Trunk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-trunk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
